A DRUNKEN passenger on a Jet2 holiday flight ran up down the aisle 'trying to expose himself' and was so intoxicated he fell over when police tried to arrest him.
Jack Breheny, 32, from Burnage, who had booked a trip to Salou in Spain to get over a break-up, was spared an immediate jail sentence after he told a court he was 'deeply ashamed'.
Police were called to aircraft moments after it touched down at Manchester Airport at about 10pm on October 3 last year following reports of a 'very intoxicated' passenger armed with 'plastic shards' running amok during the flight.
Crew of the aircraft said the defendant was 'heavily intoxicated' during the flight and was seated beside his twin brother, prosecutor Hayley Parkes told Manchester Crown Court yesterday.
It later emerged that the defendant was not, in fact, armed with plastic shards and when police boarded the aircraft officers concluded that 'it was immediately obvious that the defendant was heavily intoxicated', Miss Parkes told the court.
But unemployed Breheny was 'compliant' at first, offering out his hands to the arresting officers and telling them 'take me' before they handcuffed him, the court was told.
But a statement from one of the officers, referred to in court, revealed that the defendant 'fell over immediately' in front of him and then began to display 'resistance'. He had to be assisted by the arresting officers as they walked him off the aircraft.
This story is from the January 15, 2025 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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